Pegasus News week in view: Skull-duggery edition

by Mike Orren

Both the elections and Halloween are right around the corner and we've got decision-making guides for both. And, if you're thinking the best way to handle trick-or-treaters is to get the heck outta Dodge, we're giving away $1,202 worth of tickets to the South Padre International Music Festival.

Metro: Our plucky staff and the League of Women Voters continue to bring you candidate surveys ... Dallas County Young Democrats have been providing video interviews with State legislature candidates ... Bill Clinton stumped for Rick Noriega ... Shady doings with towing at the State Fair led to some of our users bringing some damning research about the company involved ... Keller City Limits finishes its two-part interview with Mayor Pat McGrail ... Prominent trial attorney Fred Baron is fighting for his life while his family fights a drug company to get access to an experimental drug that could save him ... Mike Davis says Highway 175's "dead man's curve" needs to go ... Grits for Breakfast says that 10% of you have outstanding warrants. Check 'em out before your friends do ... North Dallas Gazette looks at civil rights activists joining the fight to rename Ross.

Stage: The Dallas Voice says that Doubt, A Parable is worth multiple watchings ... North Texas Daily previewed Music Theatre of Denton's Aida ... Mark-Brian Sonna says that Don Juan the Vampire is over the top, but well worth the trip ... Mark Lowry thinks that the timing of Lyric Stage's Fiorello! is impeccable. He also finds Wingspan's Ghosts solid, but slow ... Upstart is an aptly-named new theater company.

Flix: West and Clear previews the Lone Star Film Fest and interviews Van Cliburn pianist Clark Griffith, who is featured in They Came to Play ... Check in Friday for reviews of What Just Happened, The Secret Life of Bees, W., Max Payne, Rachel Getting Married and Sex Drive.

Music: The Feds are calling it quits ... Brenna caught Citizen Cope at HOB ... North Texas Daily caught up with The Color of May ... Gobblers Knob brings us some new and old Denton music vids.

Artsy: John and Mike B. got a video interview with Chris McHenry, whom you may have seen sitting by the road painting scenes of Lake Highlands ... Don't miss our growing heap of Haunted House reviews ... Check out video of Frank Campagna at work on a mural.

Best Bites: Nick Badovinus is back with "ridiculous ... insane" foods on Lovers Lane ... Drinking at Six Flags has been a hot topic this week ... A reader clued us in that the Uptown Mooyah is closed ... The Meridian Room is making a comeback under new ownership.

Game: Texas beat OU ... FC Dallas kept their playoff hopes alive ... The Cowboys lost a key game; players; and generally had a painful week ... The Stars aren't exactly lighting the world on fire in their opening week and The Cupcheck tries to make sense of it ... UNT faces a referendum on a new football stadium.

Schools: Lancaster's superintendent was suspended, and there's been lots of debate between our users on his record ... Meantime, DISD finally made its emergency layoffs.

Bidness: The tumbling market has local energy CEO's dumping stock and shelving propaganda projects ... Bucking every trend in local and global business, a new vinyl-centric record store is in Deep Ellum. They aren't alone -- there's a DE winery too ... Did you know that the world's top spammer lives in McKinney? (And no, he doesn't work for us.) ... Speaking of digital crime, you might want to think twice about swiping your card at local gas stations ... McKinneyNews.net reports that construction on Bridge Street Town Centre has stopped.

Pegasus Picks for the weekend

Friday

• Anthony Hopkins(?!) leads the Dallas Symphony.
• Back to the 80's with Allison Moyet at the Lakewood Theater.
• The One O'Clock Lab Band performs two shows of a tribute to Maynard Ferguson at the McDavid Studio.
• Jimmy LaFave is at the Palace Theatre in Grapevine.
• There are scads of music and cultural events as Addison Urbanato goes on all weekend.

Saturday

• Check out top local architects' attempts at doghouses at the Barkitecture Fest, benefiting the White Rock Lake Dog Park.
• Since you and your pooch are already out, check out the Petropolitan Howl-o-ween Celebration.
• Sci-fi legend Orson Scott Card speaks in Denton.
• There's a music and wine fest in Mansfield.
• Reverend Horton Heat headlines a bill that also includes The Riverboat Gamblers, Vallejo, Record Hop and The Drams in the best outing for this year's Main Street Live Festival.
• Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons are at the Meyerson.

Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY

• Poor David's hosts a Hurricane Ike Benefit with a dozen great loccal bands.
• For those who enjoy train wrecks, Bobby Brown is at Firewater.
• Lady B Smoove celebrates a new CD at Absinthe.

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